Stem cells are key for the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Some animals in addition have remarkable regenerative capacities, which also rely on the activation of stem cells. In this research platform we aim to study the regulation of stem cells during development, regeneration and maintenance in a variety of animals with different life history strategies in order to unravel the mechanisms of regulation that lead to the activation of stem cells. We employ modern single cell technologies in combination with functional genomics approaches.  We also seek to develop new bioinformatic tools for the analysis of single cell transcriptome data.

23.11.2021
 

FWF grant for David Mörsdorf!

16.11.2021
 

Qi Zhou’s group published a paper on the genome of big-belly seahorse on Molecular Ecology Resources with Qi Zhou as a co-corresponding author.

11.10.2021
 

The former "COSB Colloquium" is back:

Program of the "Evolutionary Systems Biology Colloquium" is now available!

20.08.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is a co-author in two papers in Molecular Ecology Resources and in Cell

17.07.2021
 

The former postdoc Zongji Wang from Qi Zhou's group published a paper on phylogeny and sex chromosome evolution of Palaeognathae (flightless ratites...

02.07.2021
 

Oleg Simakov is co-author in a new Communications Biology paper about the evolution of bobtail and bottletail squid